I made myself some tools

[Tai Goo]

I had to break down and make myself a few new tools for the shop, a hot cutter and a hot punch made from a couple old ball peens, and a hawk from ¼ by 1-½ inch 1065... Hey! I’ve been good!

(Todd took that pic of me and Jeffro.)

 

[Keith_H]

I love your forge setup, it must get hot there in the summer. That is a nice tomahawk, and the hot cutter is like it's little brother

 

[Will Leavitt]

Does the music affect the "tuning" of the hot steel??

Nice tools.

 

[T Blade]

Sweet tools ya made their Tai.

Don't get too close to the forge with that ax, it wouldn't burn for too long , but it would burn HOT. I think G chord is very cool.

I tell people that I only know 3 chords, don't get me wrong, they're real good chords, and G happens to be one of them. I'd tell you the other 2, but then I'd have to kill you. (C & D)

 

[bluejaunte]

Larry, I'm sure Tai would be happy to teach you E as well.

Cool stuff Tai. I may bring a few ball-peen hammers over.

 

[Raymond Richard]

About time you made some tools. Nice looking hawk to, is that considered one of the tools?

 

[Don Hanson III]

Lookin good, Man!

 

[Stuart Willis]

Nice tools Tai. Do you have to play music to fire when the moon is not in the right position? I may could get more work completed if it works. I see from the pic it really makes the fire dance.

 

[Steve Hayden]

Tai,

Are you firing that forge with Mesquite chunks? It looks like Mesquite in the wheelbarrow. I wonder how many neat knife handle sized pieces might have gone into heating steel.

 

[sunshadow]

Sweet tools ya made their Tai.

Don't get too close to the forge with that ax, it wouldn't burn for too long , but it would burn HOT. I think G chord is very cool.

I tell people that I only know 3 chords, don't get me wrong, they're real good chords, and G happens to be one of them. I'd tell you the other 2, but then I'd have to kill you. (C & D)

I get the most mileage out of teh Bar-E and bar-A myself (although modulating the D can be used to goo effect )


nice.

-Page

 

[69_knives]

Pretty sweet; I love the hawk.

 

[Tai Goo]

Yes, the hawk is one of the "tools". Todd skedaddled with my old hawk and Jeff skedaddled with my shop knife. I need the hawk to split wood for the forge and to decapitate rattlesnakes around the shop. Those pieces of wood in the wheel barrel are salvaged construction lumber. I use it to forge with and heat treat sometimes.

I sing to all my tools and my whole shop, not just the forge... never pay much attention to where the moon is though... except when I'm singing to a meteoritic billet.